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Amazon is forcibly upgrading Prime members to Alexa Plus, and users are not happy (www.androidauthority.com)
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  • Alexa users who are Amazon Prime members are reportedly being automatically upgraded to Alexa Plus.
  • Users who have been upgraded can revert to the old Alexa by saying, “Alexa, exit Alexa Plus.”
  • One user claims that they were “flooded with ads” after downgrading back to Alexa.
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[–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

My hope is that I can use custom sentences to send values to a script or service that, in-turn, will trigger an appdaemon app where I can do all the work in python. I'm not sure about returning the calculated value as a response though.

That's how I built my harmony hub replacement.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Home assistant has an automation event that lets you set the conversation result, but you've already passed my ability haha so I can't tell you how to pull the result in from an external service.

    It may well be worth building it as a home assistant integration rather than just custom sentence triggered automations.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah, I hadn't really considered writing an integration but this is more general purpose than my universal remote.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    Well if you do, contribute it to home assistant and I'll install it 😆, it's actually a little surprising conversions aren't supported natively but I guess there is a lot to cover and they will get there eventually.

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